There was a near hysterical edge to them, most unlike his old nestmate.

Before them lay a ravine, at the near edge of which the trail ended.

But there were two little meadows and a small pond, marshy at the near edge.

The bridge slowly came down and crashed on the near edge.

He danced like a nervous bear along the near edge of the carpet.

It was as though the entire world had been pushed up from behind, tipped up on its near edge.

The near edge of the flood was about a kilometer away, and two hundred meters below them.

Inexorably, she was drawn to the near edge of the terrace.

He could trace the line that it had cut, almost to the near edge of a sweeping searchlight.

One heavy rope was tied to a stout pine some five or six feet back from the near edge of the river bank.